A TEXAN VENDETTA.

Evening Star, Issue 3694, 24 December 1874, Page 3

A TEXAN VENDETTA.

Texas comes up with its dish of horrors by the mail. It now tells us that it has a vendetta of twenty years standing, and the costs have been tif y lives. It migrated twenty years ago in Alabama, when a Taylor killed a >utton in a drunken affray. Two years later the aylors crnie to Tex is, and the uttons fo'lowed, where they lived v* proximity without be ng aware of each other’s whereabouts. Then a Ta\ lor and a companion stole a cow and thus revealed the position, and both were killed by the Sutton parry 7 who pursued. Then for several years the vendetta raged, and the whole country around was drawn into|the vortex, until the principals and their adherents numbered 15.000 souls. Atone time it was a Sutton man. then a Tajdor man, now in ambush a party is cut off, then a confederate wearing the livery of the United States police kills fifteen men and calls it duty. Then the two armies meet in battle array, and the Suttons surround the Taylors, and are proceeding to blot them out from the face of the earth. Then a parley sounds, and ad proceed before a District Judge and swear amity. Wild, delicious joy fills the country at the end of the tronh’e, but in the following month, in March last, on board a steamer, a young Taylor of twenty years deliberately shoots tho veteran William Sutton, and now lies in gaol for murder. Then Taylor’s younger brother, in gaol for cattle stealing, is taken out at night by a mob and shot ; and the Tavlnrs are now scattered and flying across the frontiers, and from sheer lack of ob jects to be shot at the vendetta is ended. Such is life in the “ I one Star,”